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Library Research for Nursing Students: 1. Welcome

This set of video tutorials will improve your ability to develop search strategies, search databases such as CINAHL and PubMed, and use the citation manager RefWorks to organize and cite sources.

Welcome

This series of short video tutorials is intended for nursing students and others who need an overview of databases and search strategies for locating literature from journals and other sources.   

Objectives:

  1. Identify appropriate sources for locating nursing and health sciences literature.
  2. Construct and refine efficient and effective database search strategies. 

Library Website Orientation

Module 1 Objective: Learn about library resources and services through a brief tour of the library website.  Describe and differentiate between databases searching health sciences literature.